New Research Data Curation Bibliography released by Digital Scholarship

In a rapidly changing technological environment, the difficult task of ensuring long-term access to digital information is increasingly important.

To tackle issues of long-term digital preservation and adequate knowledge representation of and access to information/data in a number of domains, the movement towards Digital Curation could be seen as a reaction to earlier approaches of information management which, while recognizing the urgency of developing solutions to deal with the rapid obsolescence of digital information and its volatility, failed to address the need to ensure adequate representation and long-term access to digital information as its context of use changes.

In particular, Digital Curation “involves maintaining, preserving and adding value to digitalresearch datathroughout its lifecycle. The active management of research data reduces threats to their long-term research value and mitigates the risk of digital obsolescence. Meanwhile, curated data intrusted digital repositoriesmay be shared among the wider […] research community. As well as reducing duplication of effort in research data creation, curation enhances the long-term value of existing data by making it available for further high quality research” (What is Digital Curation? , DCC).

is the selective bibliography that includes over 560 English-language articles, books, and technical reports useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions. Over 200 new works have been added to the bibliography since version 5.0.